Raphael Hirschi
Professor of Stellar Hydrodynamics and Nuclear Astrophysics
Keele University

Vishnu Varma
Research Associate In Theoretical Stellar Astrophysics
Keele University

Miren Radia
Research Software Engineer
University of Cambridge

• PROMPI is a fluid dynamics code that is used to simulate complex hydrodynamic processes within stars.
• Numerical methods:
  • Finite volume
  • Eulerian
  • Piecewise Parabolic Method (PPM) hydrodynamics scheme
• Physics:
  • Fully compressible fluids
  • Nuclear burning
  • Convection/turbulence
• Code:
  • Fortran (including some modern object-oriented Fortran)
  • Parallelised with domain decomposition distributed with MPI